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Originally Posted by Sundae Girl
An Arundel Tomb
Side by side, their faces blurred,
The earl and countess lie in stone,
Their proper habits vaguely shown
As jointed armour, stiffened pleat,
And that faint hint of the absurd-
The little dogs under their feet. . .
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Oh, now this one resonates strongly with me -- I cultivate a medievalist hobby, and here we have a poem all about an effigial tomb. Nice nice nice...
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Sometimes I'll get one of his lines stuck in my head and I wish I was 17 again and could just write it on my arm, or my folder or my pencil case. Wonderful.
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Ever considered taking up calligraphy and arranging favorite lines on nice paper? Old English black letter can be very satisfying -- and you can make it look exactly like the tomb inscriptions, in their scary Gothic ultraverticality, as "The Latin names around the base," by making the letters' middle sections three-fifths the overall height of the letters --
Hic Iacet...